wainscot (wanskot)

[Early mod. E. also wain scott, waynskot, waynskote (also, as mere D., waghenscot); A tabyll of waynskott with to tres tell is. Bury Wills (ed. Tymms), p. 115. He was not tall, but of the lowest stature, round faced, olivaster (like wain scott ) complexion. Aubrey, Lives (William Harvey). 2. A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels; paneled boards on the walls of rooms. Originally this lining or paneling was made of wainscot-oak. With their fair wainscots , Their pre es and bedsteads, Their joint-stools and tables, A fire we made. Winning of Cales (Child's Ballads, VII. 128). Boords called Waghenscot. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 173. The reader prayed that men of his coat might grow up like cedars to make good wainscot in the House of Sincerity. Middle ton, Family of Love, iii. 3. We sat down to dinner in a fine long room, the wain scot of which is rich with gilded coronets, roses, and port. Macaulay , in Trevelyan, I. 191. cullises. 3. One of certain noctuid moths: an English collectors' name. The American wainscot is Leucania extranea; the scarce wainscot is Simyra venosa . - Smoky wainscot. See smoky . waist wainscot (wan's kot), v. t.; pret. and pp. wainscoted, wainscotted, ppr. wainscoting, wainscotting. [Formerly rly also wenscot; A Chappel whose Roof was covered with Leafe-Gold, wens cotted, and decked with great store of Pearls and Precious Stones. S. Clarke, Geog. Descr. (1671), p. 267. Music is better in chambers wainscotted than hanged. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 144. The roomes are wainscotted , and some of them richly parquetted with cedar, yew, cypre e, . Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 23, 1678. 2. To line or panel in the manner of wainscoting, with material other than oak, or, more generally, than wood. The east side of it [the church] within is wainscotted with jasper and beautiful marbles. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 5. wainscot-chair (wan's kot-char), n . A chair the lower part of which below the seat is filled in with solid paneling, or the like, so as to form a box.